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1 Sep 1943
Eleanor Roosevelt visits Auckland
1 Sep 1987
New Zealander sentenced to death in Malaysia
2 Sep 1945
Air Vice-Marshal Isitt accepts Japanese surrender
2 Sep 1960
Golden hour for Kiwi runners in Rome
2 Sep 1972
New Zealand’s rowing eight wins gold
2 Sep 1975
First New Zealand representative women’s football team wins Asian Cup
2 Sep 1979
Ivan Mauger wins sixth world speedway title
3 Sep 1939
New Zealand declares war on Germany
3 Sep 1958
First open-heart surgery in New Zealand
4 Sep 1863
The wreck of the
Delaware
4 Sep 2010
Fox Glacier plane crash
4 Sep 2010
7.1 earthquake rocks Canterbury
5 Sep 1939
Prime minister declares New Zealand’s support for Britain
5 Sep 1990
An Angel at My Table
screens at Venice Film Festival
6 Sep 1948
New Zealand citizenship established
7 Sep 1868
Von Tempsky killed at Te Ngutu-o-te-manu
7 Sep 1921
Springboks play New Zealand Māori for first time
8 Sep 1862
First Albertland settlers arrive in Auckland
8 Sep 1906
New Zealand's first fatal car accident
8 Sep 1954
New Zealand signs Manila Pact
8 Sep 2008
Sophie Pascoe wins her first medal
9 Sep 1976
Wanganui Computer legislation enacted
10 Sep 1914
Eruption on Whakaari (White Island) kills 10 people
10 Sep 1984
Te Maori exhibition opens in New York
11 Sep 1880
Rail tragedy on the Remutaka incline
11 Sep 1909
New Zealand's heaviest gold nugget purchased
11 Sep 1928
First trans-Tasman flight touches down
12 Sep 1914
Forty-three miners killed in explosion at Huntly
12 Sep 1981
'Flour-bomb test' ends Springbok tour
13 Sep 1933
New Zealand's first woman MP elected
14 Sep 1938
Social Security Act passed
14 Sep 1972
Te taenga mai o te petihana reo Māori – Arrival of the Māori language petition
15 Sep 1969
First steel produced from local ironsand
15 Sep 1976
Lyttelton–Wellington ferry service ends
16 Sep 1905
'Originals' kick off All Black tradition
17 Sep 1941
Flogging and whipping abolished
18 Sep 1937
First state house opened in Miramar
19 Sep 1893
Women win the right to vote
20 Sep 1954
Mazengarb report released
20 Sep 1999
First New Zealand troops arrive in East Timor
21 Sep 1834
Rescue of
Harriet
survivors begins
22 Sep 1906
Domestic workers call for 68-hour week
22 Sep 1931
Coalition government formed to combat Depression
23 Sep 1887
Tongariro mountains protected
24 Sep 1905
Racist killing in Wellington's Haining St
24 Sep 1917
Bere Ferrers rail accident
25 Sep 1819
New Zealand's first grapevines planted?
25 Sep 1951
Māori Women's Welfare League established
26 Sep 1865
Native Rights Act declares Māori British subjects
26 Sep 1907
Joseph Ward proclaims dominion status
27 Sep 1974
William Sutch charged with spying
27 Sep 2013
Lorde releases
Pure heroine
in New Zealand and Australia
28 Sep 1899
New Zealand answers the empire's call to arms
29 Sep 1862
New Zealand's first professional opera performance
29 Sep 1947
Greymouth beer boycott provoked
30 Sep 1878
Great Flood hits South Island
30 Sep 1972
New Christchurch Town Hall opens
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